skddlbyp wrote:
> Does the Fuhrman Diet indicate anything about the past? Acc. to this
> diet, or non-diet, articulated int he book Eat To Live, the human body
is
> evolved to eat large amounts of raw and cooked green vegetables, and
fresh
> fruits; a cup or more of beans, a cup of starchy vegetables or whole
grains,
> and a cupped palmful of raw nuts. On this diet, one loses weight, feels
> full, and gets healthier.
> Foods to be avoided are: all meats of any type, including all dairy
> products, although one might have small amounts of dairy products
> occasionally; cooking oils, salt, and sugar, and etc.
>
> So, assuming this diet reflects evolution, how did the human diet
evolve?
> It would seem to me as if most of the time man was eating raw green
leafy
> vegetables; or,if not man, then his evolutionary predecessors? What
kind of
> a world does this mean? Was it a world rich in edible foliage, or was
man
> growing gardens?
> Beans were less common, and nuts were still less plentiful in the diet.
He
> was not eating meat or dairy at all.
You have to know where to look for food.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euell_Gibbons
>
> So he was not a hunter. He was not on The Paleolithic Prescriptiuon
Diet,
> unless he ate meat very infrequently.
>
> My guess would be that the world was rich in vegetation, but that
then
> there must have been long periods of famine due to climate changesd or
> perhaps asteroid strikes, in which plant food was not available in
> sufficient amounts, and man had to compensate by eating meat, or by
> cultivating domestiated cattle, which could include dairy products.
This is thought to be a benefit of longer lifespans. One old person in
a group could remember the marginally nutritious foods they ate during
the famine thirty years before, thus allowing the group (and the old
person's descendants) to survive.
>
> Another idea is that human ancestors, and maybe man, lived in a world
of
> carnivorous animals, and he had to rely on plants for food, because, if
he
> hunted an animal, it's scent would attract carnivores that might eat
him.
OTOH, a large group of humans could key on circling buzzards and chase
off the predators long enough to grab a meal.
>
> Some fruits and edible plants, such as pomegranate4s and garlic, seem
to
> have so much health benefits for man, one wonders if they were part of
an
> ancient diet, or if they were cultivated plants?
I suspect that if there are health benefits for man, there are health
benefits for primates in general. A proto-pomegramate that had a health
benefit for its seed dispersing vector would tend to have more seed
dispersers.
--
Greg G.
Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and
he will be warm for the rest of his life.
--Terry Pratchett
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